DC Libraries Rock

DC Ax slinger Dan Hovey 

Last Sunday the Takoma Park Street Fest featured more bands than a person could possibly catch in one afternoon. The event showcased how lucky we are to have so many musicians prowling around this burg. They shred, jive, and wail- just like the politicians Washington is famous for, but with much better results.

Our library even has a punk rock archive which is celebrating its fifth anniversary with a party this Saturday at the Georgetown Library up there on Book Hill, one of my favorite places in DC. If anything jazzes me up more than music, it might be having a library card, and DC has better borrowing terms  than a used car lot in Detroit. Check out up to fifty books for twenty-one days, and, if there are no holds, renew them up to ten times. What? That's gives a person 210 days get through Go Dog Go or War and Peace. And there's a 30 day grace period on top of the due date so technically you can keep a book for about as long as it takes to have a human baby.  And if you act now, you can also borrow DVDs, CDs and LPs. The librarians will even show you how to use the digital collection which includes audio books, movies, newspapers and music. Did I mention magazines?

I will stop now.

The open house runs form 2:30-4 p.m. Here's the low down from DCPL:

Selected materials from the DC Punk Archive collections will be on display in the Peabody Room, the punk archive's temporary home during the renovation of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. Read zines, view rare concert footage, and learn about how the collections have been used by researchers over the years.

Outdoor Celebration 2:30-5 p.m.

Exhibition of photographs by Antonia Tricarico, author of Frame of Mind: Punk Photos and Essays 1997-2017

DIY merch: Make a button and stencil your own posters and t-shirts! Paper will be provided, but you must bring your own t-shirt

Music by Les the DJ at 2:30 p.m. and CORIKY (Amy Farina - Ian MacKaye - Joe Lally) at 4 p.m.

And celebrate DC's first Indigenous People Day holiday weekend with live music, and too many choices starting tonight with the Rock-A-Sonics at Pearl Street and The Rhodes Tavern Troubadours at Takoma VFW where the Bold Deceivers and Jelly Roll Mortal will be on Friday, which competes for our attention with Little Red and the Renegades up at Haydees, and last but not least, King Soul reigns over the Takoma VFW on Saturday leaving me to award the folks at "Hell's Bottom" with "The Little Engine That Could" award for great music this weekend.